Audience

This guide is intended for the following audiences:

• Virtual infrastructure administrators

  This group includes cloud service providers who offer virtual machines and other virtualized resources to enterprises and other business organizations.

  These administrators manage virtualized servers, hypervisors, virtual machines, and other virtualized infrastructure. In the cloud deployment, the administrator also manages the physical resources on which virtualized servers and virtual machines run.

• Enterprise network and security administrators

  This group includes enterprise personnel who are responsible for network and security infrastructure.

  Presently these administrators might manage a virtualized data center, or they might be consolidating and re-architecting their data center for virtualization. They might deploy virtualized services and products within their data center using a private cloud or a hybrid could.